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Culms erect, unequal, slender, smooth, or nearly so, 1-3 dm. 
tall; leaves stiff and erect, long-pointed, 1-2 mm. wide, shorter 
than the longer culms; spikes 5-10, oblong, 4-5 mm. long, dis- 
tinct in an ovoid, or ovoid-oblong cluster, 1-2 em. long; scales 
as lone as the perigynia and broader, ovate, acute; perigynia 
erect, ovoid to ovoid-lanceolate, serrulate nearly to the base, 
2.5-3.5 mm. long, the beak one-third as long as the body. 
Growing among rocks, at the summits of the highest moun- 
tains. San Antonio, 10,080 ft. alt. and San Gorgonio (Gray- 
back) 11,485 ft. alt., Mrs. C. M. Wilder. San Jacinto, 10,800 
ft. alt.; 2416 Hall. An alpine species, ranging north to Alaska; 
also in Colorado and Utah. Mr. Brandegee has collected it on 
San Pedro Martir Mt., in Lower California, its probable south- 
ern limit. The type was from Nootka Sound. 
leibe SOX. ios 
VY 37. Carex subfusca, W. Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:234, 
Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:153. 
Culms slender and erect, 3-5 dm. tall; leaves long-pointed, 
about 2 mm. wide, much shorter than the culms; spikes globu- 
lose, 3-5 mm. thick, distinct, 5-7 in an ovoid head, 1-2 em. long; 
scales brown, a little shorter than the perigynia, ovate, acute; 
perigynia ovoid, very obscurely nerved on the outer face, 2.5-3 
mm. long, contracted to a serrulate beak as long as the body, 
the orifice merely toothed. 
Cuyamaeca Mts.; June, 1896; Brandegee. Borders of Cuya- 
maea reservoir, June, 1903; 3876 Abrams. Round Valley, 9,500 
ft. alt., San Jacinto Mts., June, 1903; Hasse. Bear Valley, 
6,500 ft. alt., June, 1894: 3772a Parish. 
Bialaue NOx igs ot 
Vv 38. Carex festiva stricta, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1:51. 
Culms, unequal, slender, smooth, 2-9 dm. tall; leaves lone- 
pointed, 2-4 mm. wide, shorter than the longer culms; spikes 
5-9, ovoid, 3-5 mm. long, closely aggregated in a lhght brown, 
broadly ovoid or subglobulose head, about 2 em. long; seales 
as long as the perigynia and as broad, ovate-acuminate; peri- 
eymia narrowly ovoid, nerveless, or obscurely nerved on the 
outer face, serrulate to the base, 3.5-4 em. long, narrowed to 
a beak one-half to one-third as long as the body. 
San Jacinto Mts.; Dr. Hasse. Lake Surprise, 8,200 ft. alt., 
Aug., 1901; 2492 Hall. San Bernardino Mts., Bear Valley, 
6,500 ft. alt., June, 1886, 1892, 1894; 1783, 2529, 3270 Parish. 
Northward in the Sierra Nevada to Oregon. 
Plate 23. Hie? hi. 
—= —Bracts conspicuous, erect, green, aristate, scabrid, usually much sur- 
passing the heads. 
